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Nonfiction Awards & Books

Nonfiction awards honor excellence in biography, memoir, history, science writing, and reportage.

Awards for Nonfiction

National Book Award for Nonfiction

2025 Winner

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

2025 Winner

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
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Pulitzer Prize for History

2025 Winner

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America
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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award – Nonfiction

2024 Winner

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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Baillie Gifford Prize

2025 Winner

How to End a Story: Collected Diaries
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Coretta Scott King Book Awards

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Twenty-four Seconds from Now...
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Dayton Literary Peace Prize – Nonfiction

2025 Winner

The Burning Earth: A History of Fire and Humanity
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Goodreads Choice Awards – Nonfiction

2025 Winner

Everything Is Tuberculosis
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James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography

2024 Winner

My Great Arab Melancholy
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Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction

2025 Winner

King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
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National Book Award for Translated Literature

2025 Winner

We Are Green and Trembling
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National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyView all years →
National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionView all years →
Orwell Prize for Political Writing

2025 Winner

Looking at Women, Looking at War
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RSL Ondaatje Prize

2025 Winner

Clear
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Rathbones Folio Prize

2024 Winner

The Wren, The Wren
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Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal

2024 Winner

The Mona Lisa Vanishes
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Stonewall Book Award

2025 Winner

Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery
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Whiting Award

2025 Winner

Fiction — Elwin Cotman (Whiting Award 2025)
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